The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Band 12

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J. Ridgeway amd sons, 1841
 

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Seite 478 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Seite 478 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Seite 329 - He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity : there is no law juster than that.
Seite 330 - A second man I honour and still more highly, him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable, not daily bread but the bread of life.
Seite 46 - Anglicana, from the 7th to the 10th century ; and the Ancient Latin Version of the Anglo-Saxon Laws ; with a compendious Glossary, &c. Edited by BENJAMIN THORPE, Esq. 1 vol. folio (1840), cloth. Price 40*.
Seite 74 - And if a merchant thrived, so that he fared thrice over the wide sea by his own means, then was he thenceforth of thane-right worthy.
Seite 192 - Among the graves to shout ; To laugh and play among the dead, And make this noisy rout.
Seite 192 - OUR course is onward, onward into light: What though the darkness gathereth amain, Yet to return or tarry both are vain. How tarry, when around us is thick night ? Whither return ? what flower yet ever might, In days of gloom and cold and stormy rain, Enclose itself in its green bud again, Hiding from wrath of tempest out of sight...
Seite 314 - Observations on the attempted Application of Pantheistic Principles to the Theory and Historic Criticism of the Gospels. By WH Mill, DD Second edition, .with the Author's latest notes and additions. Edited by his Son-in-law, the Rev. B. Webb, MA 8vo. 14*.
Seite 478 - The fanner attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. All of them find it for their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbours, and to purchase with a part of its produce...

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